Alabama Connecting Classrooms, Educators and Students Statewide

ACCESS is a very intriguing concept that definitely implements lots of technology into our school system. I would love to be able to use this program in my future teaching. I would like to be able to teach a class through the IVC and would also like to see lessons taught to my class through this process. I think that the internet was intended to be a teaching tool and I think that it is an excellent thing to use for that purpose. I really like the idea of using the internet for classes before you get into college especially with the short supply of teachers that we have here in the state and especially in Mobile County.

Given the opportunity I would like to be able to use the ACCESS system. I really like the fact that we can have one teacher teaching to hundreds of students in a conference type setting. My only reserve about this whole process is the loss of control in the classroom. Although that does concern me, I have enjoyed my internet classes and they give me the freedom to work at my own pace whether it is faster or slower than my fellow students. I think that if this system was implemented into more schools it would definitely help on our shortage of teachers but would also hurt the impact that a teacher-student relationship can have on the life of a student.